What we are

With all the suffering we were born into, we tumbled forward and suddenly became aware that we are bound — to survive, to live, and perhaps even to give existence and meaning to that life. And in the end we understood that this current of life is more defiant and more stubborn than any phenomenon or force in all of existence. And in every impasse and predicament, it will, in the end, find an outlet — a way to face what comes and to continue. Sometimes I think that perhaps we too, despite every injustice and suffering and humiliation endured, are among history’s unbowed — that we carve small openings through the heart of the hardest obstacles, and sometimes, with a fierce longing, we force them into passageways, asking nothing in return… And inevitably, we leave the judgment to history, and to those who come after.

Zeinab Movahed
Tir 1403

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